Updates from Parallel Republic

For OUR readers

For those of you who have been receiving our newsletter or regularly checking in on us at Medium or on the Substack webpage, we apprecaite your patience over the last month of rather uneven publication rates.

We are hoping to settle into a more regular schedule now that we are officialy a ‘We’. I will let these writers introduce themselves, but there is not reason to not provide teasers, right?

A new column by someone other than me will be starting this week focusing on art and culture in our current moment, with a partiuclar focus on the value and fortune of working class aesthetic written by an actual blue collar artist, musician, and writer.

Another writer focusing on American political culture and the politics of Left and Right in the West more generally will be starting this month writing from the perspective of someone born and raised in Normalization-Era Czechoslovakia who now teaches statistics in higher ed.

Finally, A number of contributors have asked to do one-off pieces to start, and you should expect to see them over the next few weeks and months.

Given that my own more feature-length pieces have a rather high turn around, I am going to begin experimenting with shorter posts with lower development costs that might be of value.

This week that will include a short piece about the symbolism of our publication logo and theme. I am also considering a shorter regular column starting next week called ‘Parallel Professor’ which will be an entirely redacted (let’s keep our job!) meditation on youth and higher education as it relates to our current political time and place, from the perspective of a political science professor at an elite liberal arts college ‘educating the leaders of tomorrow’. If you have other suggestions do send them along.

Generally, my goal is to get 1-2 feature pieces per week, and some shorter content to you more regularly as our list of contributors gets longer!

Thanks for reading and be in touch!

Brando Zicha, PhD
Editor-in-Chief and hitherto only blogger at Parallel Republic